Today, I received an email from my server, notifying me of an updated version of Piwik being available. That's nice I thought, but the thing is that I never received such an email before, and I couldn't recall seeing any setting in Piwik's UI for configuring the same!

After a bit of searching around the net, I found that this setting was probably added with Piwik 2.4.0, at least that's when I started getting the notifications.

Anyway, if you don't want Piwik to send update notification emails for whatever reason, you can follow the given instructions.

Disabling all (core + plugins) update notification emails

By default, update notification emails are only enabled for Piwik's core, i.e., the main installation, and disabled for the plugins.

To disable updates to the Piwik core as well, you need to edit the config.ini.php file, present under the config directory of your Piwik installation.

After playing around with multiple techniques and programs for managing my todo tasks, I settled for Taskwarrior. I have been using Taskwarrior for a couple of months now, and I must say that it fits my requirements very nicely.

Initially, I was quite enthusiatic to play around with it, so I had no problem in actually remembering to run it every once in a while. But as it usually happens with todo managers and such, I actually started forgetting to run Taskwarrior to see what's on my list :P

This can be specially devastating if you happen to miss an important reminder, such as a bill payment reminder.

Description

Since a few days ago, Arch Linux package maintainers have started replacing cron jobs shipped with several packages in favour of systemd timers. While this is fine for those who use systemd, it is not so fine for those of us using alternatives such as OpenRC, minirc, etc.

The present set of files has been retrieved from the Arch Linux svntogit repository. The same can be used to find the cron jobs which are not present in my repository, and have been removed from their respective packages as well.

With an average computer user having online accounts on dozens of websites these days, it is not uncommon for people to lose access to their beloved accounts due to a variety of reasons. Companies often try their best to make it as easy as possible for the users to have access to their online accounts restored. Unfortunately, sometimes this can turn out to be too friendly, as I will demonstrate below.

Using Google Account Recovery, you can retrieve private information, such as names and profile photos, belonging to accounts other than yours too.

The only requirement is an email address associated with a Google account.

How it works

Upon reaching the Account Recovery page, you are presented with the following options:

While working with Firebug's Console or Firefox's Web Console, you have to constantly keep switching focus from the web page to the respective command line and back, using the mouse. This gets very repetitive and tiring, real fast. If you are like me, then you have probably figured that (thankfully) there are keyboard shortcuts to focus the command lines of the respective consoles.

Switch to the respective consoles

In case you didn't know the shortcut keys, here they are:

For Firebug's Console, the key combination is Ctrl + Shift + L

For Firefox's Web Console, the key combination is Ctrl + Shift + K

Note: In the present stable version of Firefox (Firefox 27), the above key combination toggles the Firefox Web Console. In future versions of Firefox — probably starting from Firefox 30 — the behaviour will change to: always focus the command line (similar to the current behaviour of Firebug). Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612253

Now that we are able to focus the command lines of the respective consoles, another problem arises.